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24 Critical Criminology 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/ctlcrm24 and id is 1 raw text is: Crit Crim (2016) 24:1-18 DOI 10.1007/s10612-015-9271-x CmssMark Critical Punishment Memorialization in Canada Sarah Fiander - Ashley Chen - Justin Pich6 - Kevin Walby Published online: 28 March 2015 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Abstract Recent criminological scholarship on penal history museums has shown how sites of popular culture tend to silence the voices of prisoners and present them in ways that legitimate the deprivation of their liberty. While representations that reinforce the penal status quo are observable at most Canadian penal history sites, there are outliers that situate imprisonment as a form of oppression, and account for prisoners' struggles and resistance. Drawing on three case studies from a 5-year qualitative research project on Canadian lock- up, jail, prison and penitentiary museums, we discuss what critical punishment memori- alization looks like in a context of penal intensification in Canada. We show how such critical representations depend on the historical contextualization of penality as a manifestation of colonialism and/or the incorporation of prisoners' voices and standpoint. We argue that the critical representations and narratives at these museum sites open up possibilities for the social distance between penal spectators and the incarcerated to be diminished by bringing humanizing prisoner narratives into focus in an otherwise dark tourist space. Introduction In criminological literature on popular culture and news and entertainment media, it has been argued that representations of confinement and punishment often present prisoners in a negative light, which creates social distance between the criminalized and those whose S. Fiander Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University - Brantford, Brantford, ON, Canada A. Chen - J. Pich6 (E) Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada e-mail: justin.piche@uottawa.ca K. Walby Department of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Springer

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